Good morning and happy Friday everyone, it’s going to be a hell of a day.

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Instead of digging into something in the SaaS space this morning, or riffing on scooters (our own Mary Ann did that for us earlier today), or picking up a new round or fund (Jason has what you need here), I wanted use Morning Markets to share our podcast, as I haven’t done that yet.

Which is a bit late frankly as the show is around two years old. So, please meet , a podcast that we record with the TechCrunch crew. It’s a weekly, 20 to 30-minute show covering the biggest topics from the world of venture capital. As you can imagine, given the sheer scale of late-stage dollars that are flying around, we often wind up covering the Vision Fund, impending IPOs, and that sort of thing.

I’m bringing the show up today as a new episode , and I realized that aside from the occasional link I’ve never written about it here, despite doing a short post about each episode for TechCrunch. So, below is the most recent show, and below that the preceding show.

This week’s episode with and :

Last week’s episode with :

And that’s the show! Hope you like it, and if not, that’s cool too. I hear there are a bunch of other shows out there.

(Apple Podcasts , and  link.)

Illustration: Li-Anne Dias.

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Three things happened in the last 24 hours that help detail the current state of the technology market: its long-running, nine-figure venture round;Ìý buying some podcasting companies; and another podcasting shop .

Each of the events is bullish. That Lime, a scooter unicorn and venture darling, managed to raise $310 million more implies that there is lots of ready money available for risky, growth-oriented bets. The $230 million Spotify deals to purchase and help us understand that growing companies in yet-nascent markets (the whole podcasting industry was ) can secure big exits to the right acquirer. And the fact that Himalaya, a podcasting service that brings tipping to the game, can raise $100 million in a single go hints that optimism is still the leading emotion among technologists and their supporting financial class.

The collection of news is bullish, I think. Yet another scooter round and a triple-hit on the podcasting front all at once makes the start of 2019 feel pretty hot.

However, a lot of what we are seeing announced by startups and venture capitalists has been in the works for weeks and months. So what 2019 itself will bring is probably just starting to become clear. Do not over-index you expectations completely to the energy of the above news; the rest of the year might look different.

That said, our running count of $250 million rounds keeps growing and we haven’t even reached the mid-point of February. And there’s more: Kleiner Perkins has a new fund, and cloud stocks are back near record highs. The external signals that we chase look strong.

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